Executive Director - Principal Architect | Cloud Domain

What you'll do

• Advise on architecture strategy across products, applications, and technologies; translate complex issues into recommendations for leadership.
• Establish architecture governance, reusable frameworks, standards, and guardrails to improve delivery, traceability, and cost-performance.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and lead adoption of enterprise-authorized AI with validation and appropriate sensitive-data handling.

What they ask for

• 7 plus years of applied experience and formal training or certification on Architecture concepts
• Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Extensive practical cloud native experience and expertise in one or more architecture disciplines
• Deep expertise across Infrastructure Architecture areas, including IT Service Management, Monitoring and Observability, Cloud Compute and Storage, Application Integration, IT Asset Management, Network and Systems Administration

Nice to have

• Strong understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud operational models, including resilience, identity, secrets, networking, and secure operations
• Expertise in operational automation, event intelligence, and self-healing workflows; enterprise CMDB and asset intelligence; or financial-services regulatory and control frameworks

Pay

Jersey City,NJ USD 204,250.00-$285,000.00 base salary; McLean,VA USD 204,250.00-$285,000.00 base salary

Tools

Cloud Compute and Storage, Application Integration, Monitoring and Observability, IT Service Management, IT Asset Management

AI focus

Leads safe adoption of enterprise-authorized AI in architecture workflows, with human validation and attention to sensitive data; establishes guardrails for AI-assisted and agentic workflows, including traceability, auditability, resiliency, and security controls.